U.S. & NATO Illegal Rendition

U.S. & NATO Illegal Rendition

The
following evidence and information regarding U.S. and NATO Illegal Rendition has been submitted on behalf of David Chase Taylor to the government of
Switzerland via the Migration Office of the Canton of Zürich on numerous occasions. Should Taylor ever be removed from Switzerland, he
will be at the mercy of U.S. and NATO nations who currently and openly participate in torture,
assassinations,
illegal
rendition (kidnapping), and operate secret
prisons where individuals are detained indefinitely, subjected to cruel and
inhumane treatment and ultimately denied due process of law.

Given the political ramifications and subsequent blowback of the The Nuclear Bible, especially in revealing and postponing a nuclear terror attack upon the United States, there is
little doubt that the life and safety of David Chase Taylor is now at stake.

Switzerland, a neutral country with a long
history independence and political sovereignty, is the only state entity
where Taylor will ultimately be protected from a proven and well-grounded fear
of persecution.

Expected Retaliation from Intelligence Services such as CIA, MI5 or Mossad:

1. Taylor may be TORTURED in
retaliation for his journalistic endeavors 2. Taylor may be SET-UP, CONVICTED, & IMPRISONED for crimes
not committed 3. Taylor may be EXTRADITED out of Switzerland to a secret prison4. Taylor may be ASSASSINATED in an attempt to silence him5. Taylor may be KIDNAPPED (Illegal Rendition) in order to
circumvent the Swiss Asylum process

Illegal Rendition Evidence

The following news articles confirm the fears of David Chase Taylor and
substantiate without a doubt that Illegal Rendition (Kidnapping) is in fact being committed by the United States and NATO
nations.

Title: Barack Obama Preserves CIA Renditions As He Keeps Elements Of Bush's War On Terror

Abstract: Barack Obama has granted the CIA permission to continue carrying out
the controversial Bush-era practice of extraordinary rendition, it has
emerged.

And he did so just two days after becoming president and vowing to dismantle his predecessor's war on terror.

As
the new U.S. President issued orders shutting down the American
military prison at Guantanamo Bay and fought to show the Muslim world
that 'America is not your enemy', it was revealed that the renditions
programme may even be expanded.

Under executive orders signed by
Mr Obama on January 22, two days after his inauguration, the CIA still
has the authority to carry out renditions - secret abductions and
transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United
States.

Current and former U.S. intelligence officials told the Los Angeles
Times that the programme may even play an expanded role going forward as
it is the main remaining mechanism - apart from Predator missile
strikes - for taking suspected terrorists off the streets.

The
U.S. has been stepping up its usage of Predator missile strikes in
states such as Pakistan - but the horrifying rate of civilian casualties
that go along with such strikes make the practice almost as
controversial as rendition.

The rendition programme became a
major source of embarrassment to the CIA and the U.S. worldwide as
details emerged of botched captures, mistaken identities, and
allegations of torture.

The European Parliament condemned renditions as 'an illegal instrument used by the United States'.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband was forced to apologise to
Parliament in February after admitting that two flights carrying
terrorist suspects stopped on the British Indian Ocean territory of
Diego Garcia in 2002.

The planes were transporting prisoners to Morocco and to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.

His apology came after years of denials from the UK government of any participation in the programme.

Prisoners
swept up in the program have sued the CIA as well as a Boeing Co.
subsidiary accused of working with the agency on dozens of rendition
flights.

It even became the subject of a Hollywood film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon.

But
despite the controversy surrounding the secretive practice, Mr Obama
appears to have decided it was the one component of Mr Bush's war on
terror that it must keep.

'Obviously you need to preserve
some tools - you still have to go after the bad guys,' an Obama
administration official told the LA Times.

'The legal
advisors working on this looked at rendition. It is controversial in
some circles and kicked up a big storm in Europe. But if done within
certain parameters, it is an acceptable practice' (Daily Mail, 2009).

Abstract: Over a thousand CIA-operated flights used European airspace in 2001-05
and temporary secret detention facilities "may have been located at US
military bases" in Europe, says Parliament's temporary committee on CIA
activities in Europe. Its final report deplores the passivity of some
Member States in the face of illegal CIA operations, and a lack of
co-operation from the EU Council of Ministers. It calls for a formal
investigation under EU Treaty Article 7 on breaches of fundamental
rights.

The report, adopted on Tuesday with 28 votes in favour, 17
against and 3 abstentions, and now due for debate and vote at the
February plenary in Strasbourg, says European countries have been
"turning a blind eye" to flights operated by the CIA which, "on some
occasions, were being used for extraordinary rendition or the illegal
transportation of detainees." In some cases, says the report, "temporary
secret detention facilities in European countries may have been located
at US military bases" and “there may have been a lack of control” over
such bases by European host countries. “Secret detention facilities”, it
explains, can also include places where somebody is held incommunicado,
such as hotel rooms, as in the case of Khaled El-Masri in Skopje in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

The Temporary Committee therefore "expects the Council
to start hearings and commission an independent investigation without
delay, as foreseen in EU Treaty Article 7", and, "where necessary, to
impose sanctions on Member States in case of a serious and persistent
breach of Article 6".

"Not possible" to Point to Secret Detention Centres in Poland

In an amendment passed by a single vote (23 in
favour, 22 against), MEPs stated that from the available "circumstantial
evidence", "it is not possible to acknowledge that secret detention
centres were based in Poland." The report nonetheless notes that the
names of "seven of the fourteen detainees" transferred from a secret
detention facility to Guantánamo in September 2006 coincide with those
mentioned in a report by ABC News (in a report from December 2005) that
identified the twelve top Al Qaeda suspects held in Poland.

From testimonies gathered during their visit to
Poland, MEPs conclude that the investigation by the Polish Parliament
was not conducted independently and that statements to their delegation
were “contradictory” and compromised by "confusion about flight logs
[...] which were first said not to have been retained, then said to have
probably been archived at the airport, and finally to have been sent by
the Polish government to the Council of Europe".

CIA Flights

“At least 1245 flights operated by the CIA flew
into European airspace or stopped over at European airports between the
end of 2001 and the end of 2005”, although, as MEPs emphasise, “not all
those flights have been used for extraordinary rendition”.

Working documents published by rapporteur
Claudio Fava (PES, IT) also cite “strong evidence of the extraordinary
renditions analysed by the committee, as well as of the companies linked
to the CIA (…) and the European countries in which the CIA made
stopovers”. In their report, MEPs mention up to 21 well-documented cases
of extraordinary rendition in which rendition victims were transferred
through a European country or were residents in a European state at the
time of their kidnapping. With this in mind, the text "calls on the
countries of Europe to compensate their innocent victims of
extraordinary renditions".

Committee members deplore these renditions “as
an illegal instrument used by the USA in the fight against terrorism”
and condemn the “acceptance and concealing of the practice, on several
occasions, by the secret services and governmental authorities of
certain European countries”. They therefore call on the Council and the
Member States "to issue a clear and forceful declaration calling on the
US Administration to put an end to the practice of extraordinary arrests
and renditions".

Use of Torture

The report notes that the renditions
investigated by the committee “in the majority of cases involved
incommunicado detention and torture” during interrogations, as was
confirmed by the victims - or their lawyers - who testified to the
committee. According to the testimony of former UK ambassador to
Uzbekistan Craig Murray, the exchange of intelligence obtained under
torture by third countries' secret services to the British services was a
practice known and tolerated by the UK government.

In the light of the available evidence, note
Committee members, there is a "strong possibility that some European
countries may have received [...] information obtained under torture".

Reluctance to Co-Operate

MEPs also deplored “the lack of co-operation of
many Member States and of the Council of the EU towards the temporary
committee” and explained that “the serious lack of concrete answers to
the questions raised by victims, NGOs, media and parliamentarians has
only strengthened the validity of already well-documented allegations”.
The Council, they said, initially withheld -- and then provided only
partial fragments of -- information pertaining to regular discussions
with high-level US officials. The report calls this behaviour "totally
unacceptable". Such "shortcomings" of the Council, reads the report,
"implicate all Member State governments, since they have collective
responsibility as members of the Council". As MEPs note later in the
text, the Treaty-based "principle of loyal cooperation [...] which binds
Member States and EU institutions to take any measures to ensure the
fulfilment of the European obligations, such as the respect of human
rights, [...] has not been respected".

The national governments specifically criticised
for their unwillingness to co-operate with Parliament's investigations
were those of Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK. The report
also gives detailed evidence of investigations of illegal rendition or
CIA flight cases involving Bosnia, Cyprus, Denmark, Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Romania, Spain,
Sweden and Turkey.

At the same time, MEPs complained about
“omissions” in statements by Javier Solana, the Council's High
Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, regarding the
Council’s discussions on fighting terrorism with US representatives. Mr
Solana, they add, “was unable to supplement the evidence already in the
possession of the temporary committee”. The same goes for EU
Counter-terrorism Co-ordinator Gijs de Vries, who, MEPs concluded, was
“unable to give satisfactory answers”. With this in mind, MEPs took the
view that the competences and powers of the Counter-terrorism
Co-ordinator should be strengthened and monitored by the European
Parliament.

Policy Recommendations

With a view to the end of the committee's
mandate, and acknowledging that its conclusions are not "exhaustive",
the report encourages governments and/or national parliaments to launch
(or to pursue) independent investigations. MEPs also ask the Civil
Liberties Committee to follow up the proceedings of the Temporary
Committee, to monitor developments and, if necessary, to recommend
sanctions under EU Treaty Article 7 against those Member States found to
be in breach of EU fundamental rights.

The report also recommends that all European
countries should have "specific national laws to regulate and monitor
the activities of third countries' secret services on their national
territories" and advises that over-flight clearances for military and/or
police aircraft should be granted "only if accompanied by guarantees
that human rights will be respected".

Lastly, the report calls for the closure of
Guantánamo and urges European countries "to immediately seek the return
of their citizens and residents who are being held illegally by US
authorities" (European Parliament, 2007).